352 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Messrs. F. Sander and Co., St. Albans, exhibited a good plant of Cym- 
bidium Traceyanum, bearing two spikes, good pans of Habenaria carnea and 
militaris, the rare Masdevallia melanoxantha, some good Cattleya labiata and 
Loddigesii, Phalaenopsis Esmeralda, Lelio-cattleya X elegans, Cypripedium 
x John Carder, &c. The group was prettily arranged with plants of the 
Acalyptha hispida. 
Mr. Walter Goodliffe, Cambridge Nurseries, Worthing, showed plants 
of Cypripedium x Io grande x Boxalii. 
ORCHID PORTRAITS. 
L&LIO-CATTLEYA X DOMINIANA LANGLEYENSIS.-——Journ. of Hort., Oct. 
47, De. 317, he. 46. 
L&LIO-CATTLEYA X HENRY GREENWOOD.—Gard. Mag., Oct. 22, 
pp. 686, 687, with fig. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM Miss ANNA GUDERS.—Gard. Mag., Sept. 
17, p. 605, with fig. 
_ PAPHIOPEDIUM ROTHSCHILDIANUM, PFiITz.—Rev. Hort. Belge, Oct., 
p- 221, with plate. 
CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 
(Correspondents not answered here may find replies to their 
quertes on other pages. and in 
some cases, for various reasons, they have to stand ob 
er for a future issue.) 
a macrantha Kienastiana. 
some of the more distinct varieties have 
ations, in the depth of tint of the purple segments, or the 
so slight, and pass into each other by such insensible 
gradations, that it is almost impossible to separate them in any useful way. We should 
only name those which are specially distinct or particularly meritorious. 
E. O. O.—The letter “‘f” after “Rchb.” is an abreviation of “filius” (the son) and is 
added to distinguish the younger Reichenbach from his father, the author of F/ora Germanica 
It is used in a few other necessar y sin the same sense. The signs ¢ (male), 9 (female), 
been named, but many of the vari 
are often omitted, in which case the seed parent should always i 
Bowringiana x C. Dowiana, indicates C. Bowringiana crossed 
It is sometimes used indiscriminately, necessary 
details are not known. 
We have received the priced descriptive 
raising. 
Also the general catalogue of M. Auguste Chantin, of Paris, 
containing a number of the 
detter known Orchids. 
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